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E. D. ALBERTSONI GAME APPARATUS.

No. 419,096. A Patented Jam-7, 1890,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD D. ALBERTSON, OF GLEN COVE, NEW YORK, ASSIG NOR OF ONE- HALF TO PAUL H. GRIMM, OF SAME PLACE.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 419,096, dated January '7, 1890.

Application filed May 22, 1889. Serial No. 311,748. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD D. ALBERT- sON, of Glen Cove, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

I will describe my improvement in detail, and then point out the novel features in a claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a game embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical sect-ion taken on the line 00 50, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures.

A designates a base or body piece, which may be made of wood. As shown, it is circular in form. Upon its upper side it is provided with a circular recess B. About midway in the width of the recess B there are formed in the bottom thereof a number of cavities or indentations (J. I have shown six of such cavities arranged at equal distances apart.

a designates balls, of which I have shown six, corresponding to the number of cavities C. The depth of the recess Bis such that the base A may be tilted to quite an extent without the balls a. falling out of the same. The width of the recess B is sufficient to allow two balls to pass each other, or, in other words, the diameter of the balls is a trifle less than one-half of the width of the recess B. The

diameter of the balls is, however, greater,

than one-third of the width of said recess, so that should one of the balls be resting in one of the cavities C a ball could not pass it.

The game consists in causing the various balls to be deposited in the cavities C, each 0 ball having a complementary cavity that is to say, each of the cavities C may be of a diiferent color than the others, and the balls may be so colored that they will correspond with the respective colors of the cavities, or the cavities may be numbered successively and the balls be correspondingly numbered, or they may be otherwise designated so as to correspond. The halls being placed irregularly in the recess, it is a matter of consider- 5o able difficulty without touching them to roll them around in the recess so as to deposit each one in its respective cavity.

Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 5 5 The combination, with a base or body piece provided upon one side with a circular recess, of cavities in the bottom of said recess and arranged about midway in the width thereof, and balls in said cavities corresponding in number to the cavities and of a diameter less than one-half the width of the recess, butgreater than one'third of the width thereof, each of the balls being complementary to a certain one of the cavities, substantially as specified.

EDWARD D. ALBERTSON. XVit-nesses:

GEo. W. Coons, EUGENE A. WEEKS. 

